For people antidepressants can’t help, ketamine changes the brain in ways we can now see In A Nutshell For the first time, researchers used a specialized brain scan to watch how ketamine alters a key ...

Young adults with depression exhibit unusual cellular energy patterns in both their brains and blood, characterized by cells ...

A new brain-imaging study has revealed how ketamine produces its fast antidepressant effects in people with treatment-resistant depression. Researchers tracked changes in a critical brain receptor ...

Data are limited, however. In mice, ingesting exercise mimetics appeared to improve depressive-like behaviors, and the ...

For around 21 million Americans, depression is a chronic condition that persists, in part, because of their microbiome (food choices change brain neurotransmitters' messaging), a genetic ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by a lowered mood and loss of interest, contributing not only to difficulties in academic and professional life but also as a major cause of suicide in ...

This article was reviewed by Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD. Picture this: You bump into a friend you haven’t seen in forever at the grocery store. You ask them how they’ve been doing, and they say they’ve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patient Valerie Zeko sits in the treatment room at Stanford University Brain Stimulation Lab in Palo Alto, California, on January ...

Still, human data is more nuanced. “While the evidence that the gut microbiome affects mood is relatively strong, evidence that changing the gut microbiome improves mood is not as strong,” Ziegelstein ...

Transcranial direct current stimulation has been in use for years. How the "Flow" headset aims to end its niche existence.

For the first time, Americans with depression will soon be able to use a prescription brain-stimulation device at home. The approval comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and marks a major ...